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DUG
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An udder or breast or teat
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("dug" is a kind of...):
mamma; mammary gland (milk-secreting organ of female mammals)
Holonyms ("dug" is a part of...):
female mammal (animals that nourish their young with milk)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb dig
Context examples:
He went on to add The exceptions to the rule about being at the coast where water comes out actually are met by the fact there is also water there – it is found through cave locations, referring to caves with fresh water, and that some historical evidence suggests there may have been wells dug near the ahu that are not near caves.
(Scientists report correlation between locations of Easter Island statues and water resources, Wikinews)
It passed so swiftly that we were unable to say what it was; but if it were a deer, as was claimed by Lord John, it must have been as large as those monstrous Irish elk which are still dug up from time to time in the bogs of my native land.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She went into the house; I stayed behind a few minutes to plant in my garden a handful of roots I had dug up in the forest, and which I feared would wither if I left them till the morning.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The next morning I dug a shallow ditch around the tent, and, an hour later, a sudden gust of wind, whipping over the rocky wall behind us, picked up the tent and smashed it down on the sand thirty yards away.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
The nipple was about half the bigness of my head, and the hue both of that and the dug, so varied with spots, pimples, and freckles, that nothing could appear more nauseous: for I had a near sight of her, she sitting down, the more conveniently to give suck, and I standing on the table.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Know then that if these rows were dug up the wealth of the country would be gone, and mayhap there would be dry throats and gaping mouths in England, for in three months' time these black roots will blossom and shoot and burgeon, and from them will come many a good ship-load of Medoc and Gascony which will cross the narrow seas.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These acequias, dug out of the ground, are used by mountain stock farmers and acequieros (the individuals with expert skills in water catchment and allocation) to channel the meltwater so that it seeps down through the high part of the valleys.
(Researchers demonstrate that Sierra Nevada is home to the oldest underground water recharge system in Europe, University of Granada)
There was no garret at all, and no cellar—except a small hole dug in the ground, called a cyclone cellar, where the family could go in case one of those great whirlwinds arose, mighty enough to crush any building in its path.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
No matter how breathless the air when he dug his nest by tree or bank, the wind that later blew inevitably found him to leeward, sheltered and snug.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
"The graves must be dug sometime," he said.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
